On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:50:31AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > No, that's the wrong question to ask. The onus is on *you* to ask "Who > is this feature for? Do they still need it? Can we meet their needs in > a different way?". You're the one proposing to break things, so it's > up to you to make the case for why that's an OK thing to do. [...] > That's not the way this works - backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, > and it requires some seriously compelling evidence to justify a > breach.
Thanks for saying this. I get frustrated by the number of times people propose removing -O (apparently) just because they personally don't use it. I personally have never got any benefit from the tarfile or multiprocessing modules, but I don't ask for them to be removed :-) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
